Cillian Murphy

On Peaky Blinders, Cillian Murphy is Tommy Shelby, the slow-burn emperor of a post-WWI Birmingham firm. Razors in caps, family as business, style as a weapon. Knight's BBC saga, later globalized: Polly, needle drops, tailored coats. Murphy plays Tommy as silence and calculation, a man who looks like a poster and thinks like a wound. Six seasons of smoke as plot.

TV Flash keeps him because the gangster hour needed a face that could look expensive and ruined. The family is the firm; Tommy is the ledger. On this desk Murphy is 2010s crime-saga craft — a Shelby who photographs as a haircut and plays as the reason Birmingham felt like an empire.

The 2010s run is Peaky Blinders on BBC/Netflix (2013–2022), and that is the only map this page draws. First listed hour: s01e01. The first hour is post-WWI Birmingham, razors in caps: Knight's saga, Murphy's Tommy, style as weapon on first smoke. File him inside Peaky Blinders as Tommy Shelby — a lead, not a guest who arrived for a clip. When the series is fluent, the code is s02e01. Season two restarts with family as the firm, McCrory's Polly still the house's memory, smoke still the aesthetic.

That is the filing: Tommy Shelby as the job, Peaky Blinders as the room, a lead as the honest label. Landmark after the handshake: s06e06. Lock and Key closes six seasons after Netflix globalization — tailored coats and needle drops filing the firm. Come for the brand; stay because Tommy Shelby will not flatten. The counterpart on the card is s02e01. Season two restarts with family as the firm, McCrory's Polly still the house's memory, smoke still the aesthetic.